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From: david@dandelion.CI.COM (David M. Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: A limitation with repl?
Message-ID: <4183@dandelion.CI.COM>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 15:45:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 15:45:30 1987
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Reply-To: david@dandelion.UUCP (David M. Watson)
Organization: Cognition, Inc., Billerica, MA
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In MH 6.5, I use the option '-nocc me' in the repl: line of my .mh_profile,
but mail addressed to me from other machines contains a "To:" line that
doesn't match repl's simplistic concept of who I really am.  For example,
when someone sends me mail from the host called amber, repl gets the
chance to discard the address "david@amber" found in the "To:" line,
but it doesn't know that david@amber is actually me.

I see two opportunities to correct this behavior: on the sending side,
and in my repl process.  If the sender's machine left the "To:" line
as the sender typed it (which was "To: david"; sendmail aliased "david" to 
"david@dandelion" so the message could be sent to me), then my repl would
match "david" and suppress the cc to me as I specified.  Alternatively,
if repl were smart enough to realize that "david@host", where "host" is
the name of a machine in the domain .ci.com, was equivalent to "david",
then it would suppress the cc to "david@amber".

I would guess that the former of the two methods is preferable -- if so,
is there any way short of modifying MH to get it not to meddle with the
"To:" line?

		-David Watson
		 Cognition, Inc. (617) 667-4800
		 Billerica, MA